Michael A. De Leon is a graphic designer by day, but wears many hats in his off time. In 2004, after several years of covering the Spurs, he started Project Spurs, a Spurs team fansite as an outlet to provide content to Spurs fans, while continuing to write for himself and learning the ins and outs of online publishing and web design. He has since built a writing team and started a popular weekly Spurs podcast called the Spurscast.

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Stats of the Game: Spurs vs. Pacers

The San Antonio Spurs blew an early double digit lead but they leaned on their experience and defense to pull away in the fourth quarter for a 122-109 opening night victory over the Indiana Pacers.

It was a good win and here are the numbers that stood out in this first Spurs game of the new season.

122 – This is the most points piled up by any Spurs team on opening night since Tim Duncan came into the league.

80.6 – The Spurs made 29 of 36 (80.6%) from the foul line, including 5-5 from Manu Ginobili and DeJuan Blair. It’s not stellar, but they did a good job of converting their free throws compared to the Pacers who made just 19 of 28 (67.9%) of their foul shots with Mike Dunleavy going 1-4.

53.2 - The Indiana Pacers had a great shooting night as they shot 53.2% from the field. The Spurs weren’t bad either, as they made 50.6% of their shots. But it also mean that the Spurs have a lot of work to do on the defensive end of the floor.